What adhesives WON'T get smoked by a soldering iron?

[big_teee]

Yeah, well it hides the pickup, but also, if your pickups are in covers like that, there's nothing to hold them together. They don't have base plates they are screwed onto. So the epoxy makes the whole thing solid. It also eliminates microphonics.

I do most of my pickups that way.

I know you build your bass pickups in covers with epoxy.
What epoxy again do you use?
Couldn't tell what Bruce was doing if, in covers or not?
Didn't sound like it!
T

[Bruce Johnson]

I do both, although I don't actually use covers. First, I pot the bare coils with the MultiWoodPrime to glue all of the wire together. That's done with the coils hanging on a rod. Then I install the coils, their shielding shells, and any other parts into a silicone mold and fill it up with black West Systems epoxy. That locks all of the parts together into a solid, permanent sealed block. It isn't done for secrecy, it's done for durability. It can't be repaired, but it should never fail.

I know you build your bass pickups in covers with epoxy.
What epoxy again do you use?
Couldn't tell what Bruce was doing if, in covers or not?
Didn't sound like it!
T

[David Schwab]

I know you build your bass pickups in covers with epoxy.
What epoxy again do you use?

832B-3L MG Chemicals Chemicals

It's very good stuff. It's nylon filled, so it doesn't shrink when it cures. I also use it for casting pickups in molds.